Quotes About Wealth

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town; I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire, so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.

A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Sex - the poor man's polo.

The public has a taste for supping with the great.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.